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Collabra, 2016 Sound symbolism is increasingly understood as involving iconicity, or perceptual analogies and cross-modal correspondences between form and meaning, but the search for its functional and neural correlates is ongoing.
Gwilym Lockwood +2 more
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Correlation Between Car Size, Weight, Power, and Vowel Quality in Model Names
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2020 This paper focuses on the practical application of the theory of sound symbolism in brand name development and examines which of the two phonetic dimensions of vowel articulation, the vertical articulatory scale or the horizontal one, is utilised to a ...
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Ideophones in Japanese modulate the P2 and late positive complex responses.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Sound-symbolism, or the direct link between sound and meaning, is typologically and behaviorally attested across languages. However, neuroimaging research has mostly focused on artificial non-words or individual segments, which do not represent sound ...
Gwilym eLockwood +2 more
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Where did Words Come from? A Linking Theory of Sound Symbolism and Natural Language Evolution [PDF]
, 2008 Where did words come from? The traditional view is that the relation between the sound of a word and its meaning is arbitrary. An alternative hypothesis, known as sound symbolism, holds that form-meaning correspondence is systematic. Numerous examples of
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Raising Awareness about Water Issues: The Role of Water Symbolism and Proverbs
, 2013 Sustainable water management is one of the global grand challenges of our time. Tackling this challenge through corrective actions would require the participation of the general public, a public with sound awareness of the challenge and commitment.
Araya, Yoseph Negusse, Sindik, Joško
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Sound symbolism facilitates long-term retention of the semantic representation of novel verbs in three-year-olds [PDF]
, 2019 Previous research has shown that sound symbolism facilitates action label learning when the test trial used to assess learning immediately followed the training trial in which the (novel) verb was taught.
Evans, Danielle +3 more
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Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Conceptualizing functional/dissociative seizures (FDS) as resulting from dissociation, or conversion, we hypothesized that, compared to epileptic seizures (ES), FDS should carry more symbolic or communicative content and that this would allow observers to distinguish FDS from ES.
Nayrin Dissouky +8 more
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Cognitive neural responses in the semantic comprehension of sound symbolic words and pseudowords
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 IntroductionSound symbolism is the phenomenon of sounds having non-arbitrary meaning, and it has been demonstrated that pseudowords with sound symbolic elements have similar meaning to lexical words.
Kaori Sasaki +5 more
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Georg von der Gabelentz and 'das lautsymbolische Gefühl': a chapter in the history of iconicity research [PDF]
, 2016 In any future history of iconicity research, a chapter will have to be reserved to a singular figure in the history of linguistics: Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893). Only few scholars have paid attention to Gabelentz’ views on iconicity. Coseriu (1967:
Willems, Klaas
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